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Politics Unpacked

How is Biden back from the dead?

Politics Unpacked

Anna Covell

News & Politics, Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Two weeks after Joe Biden was written off, he is now the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Matt Chorley asks Henry Zeffman, The Times Washington correspondent: What the hell is going on?





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0:59.3

Joe Biden is back from the dead.

1:01.8

So I'm here to report, we are very much alive!

1:07.0

Hello, welcome to this special edition of the Red Box Politics Podcast and The Times, I'm Matt Chorley.

1:15.9

The last time we spoke to Henry Zefman, the time's newest Washington correspondent, Joe Biden was

1:20.2

faltering in the polls, he was stumbling in his speeches. He was losing momentum and money.

1:26.9

Now a couple of weeks later he's apparently the front runner to be the Democrat candidate to take on

1:32.0

Donald Trump. So I've got Henry on the line in Washington.

1:35.8

Henry, what the hell is going on? No one's probably as surprised as Joe Biden.

1:41.1

I know that he threw out his sort of faltering early attempts to win

1:49.2

support in Ira, New Hampshire and then Nevada, the first three states states he kept insisting we're going to go to

1:54.9

South Carolina and I'm going to win and from there we're going to get the nomination and

1:59.6

people after they'd attended his really quite depressing events where very few people

2:07.1

would turn up they were overwhelmingly old that get really angry because he was

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